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Originally Posted by peaceandlove
The situation has only gotten worse with recent escalations. The current debate is focused entirely on the question of troop levels. How many more troops should be sent over in order to pursue the war? The administration has already approved an additional 21,000 American service men and women …
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Hmmm. The USSR started it (1979). Then:
The Afghan government was also supported by India, while the mujahideen found other support from a variety of sources including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other Muslim nations through the context of the Cold War and the regional India-Pakistan conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
It ended in a 9/11 conflagration. Now it's about gas pipelines and poppies. There was no drug trade in the Taliban years. There were schools, universities and hospitals before the Soviet invasion. It looks like a quagmire.
